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Panama: Current account (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1977–2025 · 49 observations · forecasts to 2031 · CA_GDP

2025
−0.187%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.8 pointsfrom 0.657%
Average, 2016–2025
−3.05%10 years
Record high and low
12.2% (1988)low −13.0% (2014)

Current account (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
2031-2.50Forecast
2030-2.50Forecast
2029-2.50Forecast
2028-2.50Forecast
2027-2.50Forecast
2026-1.50Forecast
2025-0.187
20240.657
2023-3.19
2022-0.362
2021-1.21
20200.215
2019-5.14
2018-7.88
2017-5.82
2016-7.54

Sources

  • WDI (archive)1977–1996
  • World Development Indicators1977–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • Central American Monetary Council2009–2021
  • IMF International Financial Statistics2018–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031

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Panama documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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